Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Having read all the comments: you have the IQ of a french fry and yet regard yourself as somehow more intelligent than literally everyone in this post, while they are merely trying to inform you on what you are blabbering on about. You're like a Karen, but somehow like 3 rungs lower on the education factor. Without a doubt, Homer Simpson would regard you as an idiot.
I've known a couple therians, and they truly believe they are born into the wrong form. I don't share the feeling, but it's no different in my eyes than being straight, bi, gay, trans... Believe it or not, humans - not even you, it's shocking I know - possess all information possible regarding the world and our bodies within it.
It's alright though, the furry (and by extension, therian and otherkin) community will have the last laugh: I've been here 22 years, and time and time again, the people who bash these communities the hardest, are in denial the deepest.
Cya around soon~ ♥️
Wow, this entire comment section. As a transspecies therian myself (and also a furry, therian furs do exist!), thank you for not therian-bashing like so many of the other supposedly "pro-furry" people downthread.
("Oh it's not like real transgender people, that'd be ridiculous!" Bite me. :V Surprise, the supposedly made-up strawman actually exists and we're collateral damage.)
I don't know if OP's likely to be a closet furry/therian or not, they're deploying a lot of random cluelessness, but y'know... who knows, they could be. Don't have to be, though.
But yeah (and this bit is more for OP in case they're thinking "oh no I'm a failure for wanting to be an animal") – you can just, be an animal if you feel like it. It may be unusual, but it's not Bad Weird™, and it doesn't Hurt Real Transgender People™, or whatever. And also a surprising amount of furries aren't, and are totally human, and I honestly don't understand them at all (why would you say you want to be an animal and then not actually mean it at all?), but they're a thing too.
And you don't have to do anything special to count. Want to be an animal? Then you get to be an animal. We don't gatekeep. We don't go "you must have this much dysphoria to qualify!". Just like with transgender, if you want to be, that's all you need. 🐺
-- Frost